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So I found a guide online about how to begin to become comfortable with your specific deck and develop a relationship with it personally, especially as a newcomer to the tarot. I myself have only had cards for about three weeks now.

The exercise itself is to be started before ever reading the card meanings or the book that comes with the deck. Split the deck into seven piles, one for each day of a week; each day, one by one take the cards and jot your initial impressions of the cards, how they make you feel, what you think they might mean, and so forth.

Once you have done this, you'll have a better understanding of what your cards mean TO YOU and how you relate personally to them. I found it really helpful, do you have anything to share about how you started learning tarot, or why you got into it?

Any exercises you found useful in the beginning?

cat_whee Not if they give you a sore neck. cat_wink

The Numberology of it :

" The relationship of numerology is actually an enormous topic in
itself but here is an idea of how the Tarot Cards in the minor
Arcana relate to the numbers One through to Nine. The meanings
stay basically the same no matter what suit the cards are in -
Cups, Swords, Wands or Coins.

Below is the key words that are traditionally used by Tarot card
readers to read a card when it comes up in a spread. This
particular list is adapted from the well known universal meanings
for numbered cards from the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck.

One: Creation, originality, independence, courage, progress,
ambition, positiveness, will power, leadership, pioneering,
activity, force, raw energy.

Two: Love, service, gentleness, harmony, adaptability, charm,
diplomacy, friendliness, rhythm, music, receptivity, cooperation,
consideration for others, will, purpose, initial understanding.

Three: Artistic expression, joy of living, freedom from worry,
optimism, inspiration, talent, imagination, good taste,
sociability, friendliness, kindness, conception, beginning
manifestation.

Four: Practicality, service, patience, exactitude, organization,
application, devotion, patriotism, conservatism, pragmatism,
dignity, economy, trust, worthiness, endurance, loyalty,
production, mastery.

Five: Freedom, progress, versatility, understanding, variety,
adaptability, mental curiosity, life experience, cleverness,
non-attachment, sociability, change, discord, travel, adventure,
companionability, surrender, release.

Six: Love, harmony, home, responsibility, adjustment, musical
talent, sympathy, understanding, domesticity, guardianship,
stability, poise, protection, healing, firmness, balance, idealism,
conscientiousness, justice, burden-fearing, service to All,
solution, exaltation, seeing.

Seven: Mental analysis, technicality, introspection, peace, poise,
scientific research, spirituality, faith, trust, stoicism,
refinement, wisdom, silence, "theories and fundamentals," feeling,
deepening, mystery.

Eight: Power, authority, success, material freedom, judgment,
discrimination, executive ability, organization, leadership,
management, practicality, thoroughness, dependability,
self-reliance, control, the power to succeed, repose,
consideration, retreat, ripening.

Nine: Universal love, sisterhood, brotherhood, charity, compassion,
the Higher Law, artistic genius, selfless service, philanthropy,
humanitarianism, magnetism, sympathy, understanding, romance,
generosity, breadth of viewpoint, understanding before or beyond
words, strengthening."

From a Numerology subscription.

I have a strange way of thinking when it comes to Tarot, as many do.
I never felt too drained reading for myself, so when I began I would do readings on myself
I use it now to tell wether a card spread will work or not for me, because who better knows answers to things like "whats worrying you" than YOU right? It's not for everyone, as some don't like doing multiple readings, some can't stand to look inot their on futures, ect.
But it was very fun and helped me in the beginning. You gotta be able to seperate yourself and kinda play pretend to not IMMEDIATELY force a card to mean what it "SHOULD" mean to you, since it's yourself your reading for though, you know?
Idk.
practice reading for people who don't judge and are patient/also interested
the one card a day thing was always so cool to me!
depending on how you think of your deck(I.E. do you believe it's just cards with your energy in them, or do you believe each deck has it's own entities in it, or put in it, ect) there are spreads out there that address how your deck likes you, and it's personality ect c: